Now there is some good news for Cancer Patients who were bound to face the unbearable pain and use the substituted medicine for relief from the acute pain. The Rajya Sabha has passed the bill, which simplifies the regulations for procuring and possessing narcotic drugs like morphine for medicinal use.
Needless to say, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Bill, 2014 was passed by Lok Sabha Thursday and passed by the upper house shortly before it was adjourned sine die.
After passing the bill, now cancer patients can take the morphine as a medicine as earlier use of morphine was under strict regulation under the NDPS Act, 1985, and lengthy bureaucratic procedures discouraged its manufacturing in the country and limited its availability at medical institutions that care for cancer patients.
The law will bring relief to thousands of cancer patients in the country who use another psychoactive chemical opioid for acute and chronic pain relief.
The amendments will prescribe the forms and conditions of licence or permits for the manufacture, possession, transport, inter-state import and export, sale, purchase, consumption or use of essential narcotic drugs and charge a fee for that.
The Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) had been pushing for the passage of the amendment in parliament.
(With inputs from IANS)
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